Thursday, April 1

This is the kind of meal that looks like it should be served on a tin plate but is oh, so, good! Remember that I always double the amount when I reconstitute my dried beans to have some ready for other recipes? Well, there I was in front of the freezer, extra beans in hand, when I spied the leftover Thanksgiving turkey and stock and -- voila! -- an idea began to form. Don't even ask why but I had several different grains on hand, as well, and decided to just throw the lot together to see what might happen. This turned out so good that, if you were a vegetarian, you could simply leave out the turkey and use vegetable stock for the liquid.

The Turkey Medley went into the 275F solar oven at 1:30 p.m. and was ready at 4:00p.m. Conventional cooking - 12,000-15,000 BTUs; solar cooking - FREE! This is probably in the stew category and can be enjoyed all by itself; but, it is just as good, cold, in a sandwich! Never expected that. Maybe you can find other ways of serving it, too.

Looks like something we would make. We have a wood-fired pizza oven and I have these cool stone turned pots. I usually cook something after we do a firing and I bet this would be amazing in there. Thanks for the food idea.

Christer, it's called a solar oven and the one I'm using is called a Global Sun Oven. I would think shipping from the States would be horrendous, but there are some European vendors. But, you can also make your own, if you're handy. Cooking times will probably double, but you can be walking your lovely grounds and it won't matter. It's laid back cooking and it's free.

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